My plan is to use dark pink or orange to create the pinwheel in each one. They're pretty teeny tiny though, only about 5x5.

You will need sashing (or something) in the end anyway, so I thought, hmmm, what if I lattice around each pinwheel with the stripey fabrics from the set (using the pink stripes around pink pinwheels and the orange stripes around the orange pinwheels)? It makes the blocks a better size anyway and then no sashing the whole thing in the end (or not unless I want to).

What do you think? Does it work for ya? It'll be a bunch of crazy pink & orange stripe meetups between blocks. (Or I could lattice around again with a calmer fabric, like the bird print or something.) Yes? No? Maybe so?

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Maybe what bugs me about the pink stripes is how i made them go OUT from the original block in every direction (i.e. some horizontal, some vertical)...

What if all the lattice stripes were horizontal, kind of like this:

And then when they were up next to each other, it would be like this?

Or maybe y'all are fine with the pink stripes as is. I don't know! I NEED OPINIONS. Thank you for your time. And good night....

I like a mixture of the stripes--so the long ones going vertical and the short ones going horizontal. Then match them up--so that the long "sashing" between rows all goes vertical and the sashing between blocks goes horizontal. Does that even make sense?

I like how the stripes go out in the pink ones...I would continue to do it like that. Then, to put it all together I would add white sashing between with little posts in the sashing (right where the 4 squares meet there would be a little square of color...in maybe solid pinks and oranges) That's what I would do. And I would have to say that they are the sweetest little blocks. LOVE 'em.

I'll be the contrary one and say I like the idea of the stripes all going the same way. But what looks so cool about that is the way the stripes match up and flow into each other, which might be a large pain in the ass to cut and piece. I like Juno's idea about switching the pink and orange for the sashing, though.

I think the pink one in its current incarnation is really adorable, but maybe when they're all together, more unity of direction (? is that what I mean?) would be good. But if you do that, keep one block like that and make a .... a...something with it because I love it!!!

super cute squares. loving this one. and I like the pink one with the stripes not all the same direction. although am intrigued with the idea to have pink block, orange stripes. also as cute as this is I am all cool with you going back to the friendship star quilts :)